Spider
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Spider is a central trickster god character in Neil Gaiman's novel "Anansi Boys," embodying charm, mischief, and the supernatural legacy of the West African spider-god Anansi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spider canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6875448 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spider Context triple: [Anansi Boys, featuresCharacter, Spider]
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A.
Spider
Spider is a distributed storage engine for MariaDB that enables sharding and horizontal partitioning of tables across multiple servers.
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B.
Spider
Spider is the protagonist of the science fiction film "Elysium," a character who navigates a starkly divided future society to challenge its oppressive class system.
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C.
Spider
"Spider" is a 2002 psychological drama film directed by David Cronenberg, in which Gabriel Byrne plays a key role in the story of a mentally disturbed man unraveling his traumatic past.
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D.
Pająk
Pająk is a Polish surname borne by various notable individuals, including politicians, athletes, and public figures.
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E.
Tigerman
Tigerman is the surname of Stanley Tigerman, a notable American architect associated with postmodern design.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spider Target entity description: Spider is a central trickster god character in Neil Gaiman's novel "Anansi Boys," embodying charm, mischief, and the supernatural legacy of the West African spider-god Anansi.
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A.
Spider
Spider is a distributed storage engine for MariaDB that enables sharding and horizontal partitioning of tables across multiple servers.
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B.
Spider
Spider is the protagonist of the science fiction film "Elysium," a character who navigates a starkly divided future society to challenge its oppressive class system.
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C.
Spider
"Spider" is a 2002 psychological drama film directed by David Cronenberg, in which Gabriel Byrne plays a key role in the story of a mentally disturbed man unraveling his traumatic past.
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D.
Pająk
Pająk is a Polish surname borne by various notable individuals, including politicians, athletes, and public figures.
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E.
Tigerman
Tigerman is the surname of Stanley Tigerman, a notable American architect associated with postmodern design.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
demigod
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fictional character ⓘ god ⓘ trickster figure ⓘ |
| alignment | chaotic neutral ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Spider Nancy ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Anansi Boys ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
contemporary fantasy
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fantasy novel ⓘ mythic fiction ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
London
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linked to:
London, England
music ⓘ performance ⓘ stories ⓘ trickery ⓘ |
| basedOn | Anansi ⓘ |
| creator | Neil Gaiman ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin |
Caribbean diaspora
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West African ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Anansi Boys ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasParent | Anansi ⓘ |
| hasPower |
illusion creation
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reality manipulation ⓘ shapeshifting ⓘ story magic ⓘ supernatural luck ⓘ teleportation ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipTypeWith | romantic relationship with Rosie Noah ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith | Rosie Noah ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Charles Nancy ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family legacy
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identity ⓘ power and responsibility ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
arrogant
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charming ⓘ confident ⓘ impulsive ⓘ mischievous ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Akan folklore
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linked to:
Akan religion
West African mythology ⓘ
linked to:
West African folklore
|
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
deuteragonist
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foil to Charles Nancy ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| partOf | Gaiman mythos ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfFirstAppearance | 2005 ⓘ |
| relatedWork | American Gods ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Spider Description of subject: Spider is a central trickster god character in Neil Gaiman's novel "Anansi Boys," embodying charm, mischief, and the supernatural legacy of the West African spider-god Anansi.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.